Qin Ziwen remained silent the whole time, just watching her quietly.
'Is this a side effect of having killed someone?' he wondered. After encountering an unexpected incident like this, his first instinct was to shut her up for good—to make it so she could never speak again.
'My mindset is completely different from before I killed.'
But he knew that wasn't a rational thing to do.
In a public place with so many people, especially within the Gated Community—a relatively "safe" environment—making a move in front of everyone would only provoke resentment and vigilance from the other residents.
'If everyone in the entire Gated Community were scattered into the forest, we'd be a pack of highly intelligent beasts struggling to survive. Acting on animal logic would be fine then.'
'But now, we have the Gated Community, we have a Home. Even though the threads of civilization are stretched to their breaking point, they haven't snapped just yet.'
